Tuesday, June 11, 2013

2009-10 Upper Deck Basketball Rack Pack

Hope everyone's doing well. The fourth quarter's about to start in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. I'm going with Heat in 6. LeBron's gonna play all crazy-like and Wade and Bosh will play pretty close to what's expected of them.

Anyway, I felt the need to post a basketball pack for the Finals. It's a variation of a pack we saw before...it's a 2009-10 Upper Deck Basketball Rack Pack!

There were two versions of this rack pack, one had LeBron on it and other had Jordan. I don't think there was a difference between the two other than the athlete that graced the front of the pack. As you can see, there's 36 cards in the pack with 2 exclusive Sophomore Sensation cards. Here's what was in the Top Pack:

Top Pack:

#19 – Emeka Okafor

#57 – Andris Biedrins

#119 – Chris Douglas-Roberts

#95 – Dwayne Wade

#44 – Dahntay Jones

#92 – Mike Conley

#142 – Hedo Turkoglu

#104 – Andrew Bogut

#SS-LM – Luc Mbah A Moute (Sophomore Sensations)

#294 – Spencer Haywood (Immortals)

#963 – Michael Jordan Legacy

#177 – Michael Finley

#191 – Mehmet Okur

#163 – Steve Blake

#93 – Michael Beasley

#86 – Trevor Ariza

#50 – Rodney Stuckey

#112 – Craig Smith

I did not scan every card since we've seen a pack already. Below are some samples:

As usual, the photography is very good. Showing the back of the Turkoglu card just because of Hedo's goofy grin. Here's more from the Top Pack:

And the backs:

Upper Deck used the same design as the Baseball set they put out that year. The names and some of the logos are sometimes hard to read; it may have been because of the photography used for the card. Bonus points for digging up that old Seattle logo:

Here are the cards from the Bottom Pack:

Bottom Pack:

#131 – Jared Jeffries

#109 – Al Jefferson

#55 – Jamal Crawford

#137 – Desmond Mason

#144 – Rashard Lewis

#200 – Dominic McGuire

#80 – Pau Gasol

#182 – Andrea Bargnani

#208 – Eric Maynor (RC)

#SS-BB – Bobby Brown (Sophomore Sensations)

#51 – Amir Johnson

#71 – Jeff Foster

#195 – Antawn Jamison

#181 – Jose Calderon

#72 – Jarrett Jack

#120 – Eduardo Najera

#106 – Joe Alexander

#114 – Devin Harris

And again, here are some samples:

Packs like these were plentiful at Wal-Marts and Meijers for a while. I would just keep buying packs thinking I didn't have the big names. Then, after realizing I had a stack of packs, I double-checked them and saw that I had the big names just a few packs in; sure, I would have loved to pull a Blake Griffin or Stephen Curry RC, but they were short printed. Discounted pack buying can be addicting.

Anyway, that's the pack. Here's hoping to a long and entertaining Finals. Oh, and go Blackhawks! I'm sure JediJeff's got some hockey packs all lined up for Lord Stanley's Cup. Thanks for reading!